http://www.somethingilearned.com Punk Rock and Other Assorted Bullshit Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:47:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Something I Learned Today ain't dead, but it is on life support. Comatose, if you will. At this point I'm not expecting that to change for another month or so. Unless the mood strikes, which hasn't happened in awhile. But you never know. How's that for clear direction? http://www.somethingilearned.com/2007/08/resting-comfortably After several years of trying I finally tracked down a copy of the 6 song 12" by DC band Rain. La Vache Qui Rit was recorded in 1987 and posthumously released in 1990 on Guy Picciotto's Peterbilt label. "Worlds at War" was included on the State of the Union comp. ... http://www.somethingilearned.com/2007/07/rain One of the nice things to find in my mailbox upon my return from vacation was a promo copy of Alternative Tentacles reissue of the collected works of Miami's The Eat. It's Not The Eat, It's The Humidity collects 30 studio tracks and 29 live cuts on 2 CD's. And ... http://www.somethingilearned.com/2007/07/the-eat-its-not-the-eat-its-the-humidity If you like loaded, pounding, repetitive riffs, banshee vocals, and the occasional 9 minute marathon then this is the shit for you. I'm feeling lazy today (today? how about the past two weeks) so I'm going to cut and paste from the wikipedia writeup on Washington state's noisemongers Karp: Karp was ... http://www.somethingilearned.com/2007/07/karp Imaginary Friend by Sorry was one of those great used bin finds. In fact, I found it in the same store that I picked up a cheap copy of Bands That Could Be God. Both records were on the Radiobeat label and cost me less than $10 combined. Sometimes I ... http://www.somethingilearned.com/2007/06/sorry This thing has been kicking around for a couple of months now, and I figured it was time to just post it so I can move onto something else. This is all covers, grouped by band. You get covers of Husker Du, Wire, The Saints, Joy Division, and The Dicks. ... http://www.somethingilearned.com/2007/06/silt-podcast-6-covers Columbus, Ohio in the early 90's must have been a cool place to be, what with all of the great garage punk bands and labels - New Bomb Turks, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, Cheater Slicks, Datapanik records, and of course Gaunt. 400 miles away from Columbus in Rochacha it ... http://www.somethingilearned.com/2007/06/gaunt The past two weeks I've been constrained by work issues and a full load of house guests, both of which have made posting difficult. Things should calm down by this weekend, at which point I expect to have a couple of posts and a new podcast available. Stay tuned. http://www.somethingilearned.com/2007/06/soon-2 Shit, there ain't much I can say about either of these legendary bands that you don't already know. This split was released by Yesterday and Today records in 1990, featuring one track apiece from each band. The Bad Brains track was recorded in 1979 and was released on the Best ... http://www.somethingilearned.com/2007/05/bad-brainsblack-market-baby-split I'm sure there was more to the Cleveland hardcore scene in the early 90's than Integrity and Face Value, but those two bands were Cleveland in my circle of friends. Even cooler, they were just a couple of hours down the pike from us which means we got see them ... http://www.somethingilearned.com/2007/05/face-value